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Toxic Treatment: Fluoride’s Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle
Editor’s Note Early in the 20th century, dentists discovered that fluoride reduced the number of cavities in their patients’ teeth. Soon, amidst much debate and rancor, fluoride was regularly added to American public drinking water supplies. Fluoridation has been hailed by some as a triumph of public health but it was also, as historian Frank […]
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NIH provides $9.8 million in funding for new clinical trial using Advantage Arrest Silver Diamine Fluoride 38%
Advantage Silver Dental Arrest, LLC and Elevate Oral Care, LLC announced today that the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has provided $9.8 million to fund a Phase III randomized clinical trial using Advantage Arrest® Silver Diamine Fluoride 38% for arresting caries in children. This grant […]
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NYU Dentistry receives $2.8 million as part of multi-center study to stop progression of cavities
The National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a grant that will provide funding to New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) and its collaborators to test the effectiveness of silver diamine fluoride in stopping the progression of cavities in young children. The grant provides […]
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Movement to Remove Fluoride From US Water Supplies Continues
Story at-a-glance While water fluoridation is purported to decrease your risk of dental cavities, fluoride needs to be applied topically for this to work. It doesn’t benefit your teeth when swallowed Swallowing fluoride displaces iodine from your thyroid, as iodine and fluoride are both halogens. Without iodine, you cannot make active thyroid hormones, raising your […]
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Durango fluoride fight hearkens to Colorado Springs brown stain history
A fight over fluoride in Durango is nothing to smile at. It’s gotten pretty gnarly, judging from the excellent coverage of The Durango Herald. Next month the City Council is expected to decide whether to put a yes-or-no question on the ballot in April to let voters decide whether the city should continue to add […]
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From fluoride to lead, how to know what’s in your family’s water
You don’t have to live in Flint, Michigan, to worry about your family’s water supply. Concern about Flint’s continuing battle with lead contamination has people across the country paying closer attention to what is flowing out of their taps. In Maine, residents in seven towns voted Nov. 8 to remove fluoride from the water supply, […]
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Iowa Fluoride Study Gets NIDCR Grant
The National Institute of Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has given a 2-year, $2.3 mllion grant to Dr. Steven Levy of the department of preventative and community dentistry at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry to work on the Iowa Fluoride Study. Launched in 1991 and funded by the NIDCR, the Iowa Fluoride Study recruited a cohort […]
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Does fluoride-free toothpaste need a warning label?
Fluoride-free toothpaste needs a warning label for parents: ‘doesn’t prevent cavities.’ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires a warning on all fluoride products that says: “Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. [highlighted in bold type] If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact […]
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Iowa Fluoride Study receives continued funding
Dr. Steven Levy and colleagues at the University of Iowa’s Colleges of Dentistry, Public Health, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have received a two-year award of $2,318,15 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). The award, which began Sept. 10, 2015, is entitled: “Fluoride, Dietary, and other Factors Related to […]
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Why do poor kids get more cavities?
Despite decades of community water fluoridation, fluoride toothpaste use, improvements in nutrition and hygiene education, dental caries — also known as cavities — remain the most common childhood disease in America. They lead to pain, infections, nutritional deficits, lack of sleep, poor concentration, slower physical growth and a loss of about a dozen school hours […]
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